Syndra vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Syndra
based on 1,945 Syndra vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Tahm Kench
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Advice to Win Against Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Syndra vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Syndra vs. Tahm Kench counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between this pair of champions. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Syndra usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Syndra or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes a bad counter for Tahm Kench.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Syndra into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Syndra is a garbage counter to Tahm Kench. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Syndra versus Tahm Kench build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 46.0% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Tahm Kench as Syndra, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Syndra vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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